Modern man rarely enters the now and true being.For the egoic presence is so strong that it enslaves the individual.Only during moments of extreme pleasure pain or terror is the ego truly silenced.This is when the universal application of crying out to God is experienced.There is no need of things of the past when in the now.This when applied will give one dominion over the tool called the mind.Spirituality is beyond the ego and its finite knowledge.When one is truly at peace one feels no need to sling mud at belief endlessly.